Ethics reading group
Reading: Hammerton, Matthew (2016). Patient-Relativity in Morality. Ethics 127 (1):06-26.
Abstract: It is common to distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are agent-relative from those that are agent-neutral. One can also distinguish moral rules, reasons, or values that are moment-relative from those that are moment-neutral. In this article, I introduce a third distinction that stands alongside these two distinctions—the distinction between moral rules, reasons, or values that are patient-relative and those that are patient-neutral. I then show how patient-relativity plays an important role in several moral theories, gives us a better understanding of agent-relativity and moment-relativity, and provides a novel objection to Derek Parfit’s “appeal to full relativity” argument.
PhilPapers: Patient-Relativity in Morality
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This group is organised by the ethics research group. For more information or to find out about future readings (and venues!), please contact Rick Sendelbeck or Claire Hamlett.
Ethics reading group
Room F29/30, Psychology Building, 7 George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9JZ